to pardon. so so your get pardons for presidents, for their clients, lawyers. so they're rudy giuliani famously so, you're more likely to get mercy of the president if you're close to the president, you have money and you have power meanwhile, as i talk about in the book, the exoneration by judges of people that have miscarriages of justice are disproportionately for people of color. i mean, we have all these other myths, miscarriages of justice within, our criminal system, the pardons not fixing them at all. if we have issues with that, it's really about mercy. we should reforming the system, you know, the rules, the standard, the appeals, habeas, things like that. not assume the president is going to somehow like the king make sure that know you're not it's not trial by fire. and if you die. then you know, you die in a in a dispute, a before there was a jury trial, for example, king might have to come in and i talk about a case in the 13th century where a little girl a year old girl by mistake

is there a pardon exercised by governors, and are their pardon power's the same as the pardon powersf the president? how do they differ? [laughter] guest: this is surprising, too, there are many more state prosecutions and state prosecutions than federal. just like we have the three branches of the government of the federal, each state has their own legislature, judicial branch and each state has a mini president which we call the governor. but there is only a handful of states where the governor has the kind of authority that presidents do. a majority of them is shared with a board, sometimes with experts from every walk of life i know you are an expert in sociology and psychology as well as law -- they might have to get conditioned, get a buy-in from the legislature, as i just indicated, there are rules on applying for these, you have to have served your sentence. and across the globe, actually, most countries with the exception of china, have some version of pardon power, but very rarely does it have this king-like power that we the bastions of democracy, america, seem to accept a

to pardon. so so your get pardons for presidents, for their clients, lawyers. so they're rudy giuliani famously so, you're more likely to get mercy of the president if you're close to the president, you have money and you have power meanwhile, as i talk about in the book, the exoneration by judges of people that have miscarriages of justice are disproportionately for people of color. i mean, we have all these other myths, miscarriages of justice within, our criminal system, the pardons not fixing them at all. if we have issues with that, it's really about mercy. we should reforming the system, you know, the rules, the standard, the appeals, habeas, things like that. not assume the president is going to somehow like the king make sure that know you're not it's not trial by fire. and if you die. then you know, you die in a in a dispute, a before there was a jury trial, for example, king might have to come in and i talk about a case in the 13th century where a little girl a year old girl by mistake

>> well, it's always a question if he pardons himself or had pardoned himself, what's the consequenceand i think in this moment there really isn't any accountability for pardon so in theory, he could still have something in his top drawer. margo mar-a-lago might have already written it. >> that's conceivable. i mean, he dangled it when he was president or if he takes office, he could pardon himself, but, you know, with this supreme court, very pro trump. and the immunity decision allowing presidents to commit crimes using official power he might not even need a power, pardon, it's sort of a green light for criminal conspiracy in the oval office. >> president biden's son, hunter biden. he just pleaded guilty in that federal tax evasion case back in june, he was found guilty in that federal guns case president biden before he said he wasn't going to run for reelection, said he would not pardon his son and the white house has said that he also would not commute his son's sentencing. i personally find it impossible to believe that that's that he'd that he won't do that for his son. what d

assumed guilt if you accept this pardon. think initially nixon turned it down under those conditions. eventually, he came around and accepted the pardon under those conditions, that was the only way, at that point, that dad was going to get anything out of nixon that he was guilty of crimes. so dad once said to me, peter, a president is kind of like a father of a family, and when one of the kids gets out of line, you know, there's rules and things you are supposed to follow, and when one of the kids gets out of line, it breaks those rules. there's consequences. those consequences can either be really big or moderate. and a father has a choice of what kind of consequences he implements. and if he thinks that by carrying out the 10th degree of the law it's going to rip the family apart, the father has a chance to have grace and mercy to hold the family together, and i think dad looked at the pardon in that way. listen, nixon was sick. he was guilty. it was like a boxer getting beat up and the fight was over in the country had

general, the mandatory conditions for pardon were met, the petition for pardon, admission of guilt, sincere repentance and a promise to lead a law-abiding life. all available materials were studied, including criminal cases and materials related to their behavior in places of deprivation of liberty of these persons. the members of the commission took into account other circumstances: age, sincere repentance, assurance. persons that they will strictly observe the laws of our country in the future, their state of health and other circumstances, while we also took into account the fact that all these persons did not commit a violent crime against representatives of the authorities, this is very important, they were convicted mainly for insult and slander in the internet space. the members of the commission discussed each candidate in detail, the decision was made by open vote, according to the prosecutor general. imprisonment, will be under close supervision of the internal affairs agencies after they are released from their places. by the way, next week there will be another meeting o

is a pardon coming? >> i think a pardon is coming. understand why vice president harris is dodging those questions. i suspect, in her heart of hearts, she knows the world has changed from the time that biden made the pledge that he would not pardon hunter biden. he is now not going to be a candidate for reelection, and that frees into something that would obviously be deeply unpopular and controversial, that he's not going to pay a political price for it, because at that point, in december or whenever he issues the pardon, he's no longer going to be a candidate for the presidency. >> john: what do you think of this idea that the statute for an alford plea demands that a higher-up in the doj signs off on it? he goes all the way up to the attorney general. andy said a little while ago he thinks that is why garland appointed david weiss, because david weiss would have the authority to sign off on this alford plea. what you think about that? >> i think that's the right analysis. the justice department in this case has gone kind of the ext

pardon, only joe biden would know, there is no scenario where he doesn't pardon his son, right?are right, there is no way we get to january 20 and hunter biden is facing jail time. >> steve: why do you think abbe lowell waited until the 11th hour? there was no deal behind the scenes, prosecutors had all the goods and tried the alford plea and said he is guilty to this part and not that part and they wouldn't go for that either. >> discussions were happening, they were not getting what they wanted. as former u.s. attorney i've seen this in hundreds of cases and an alford plea is an admission that the facts are bad and you will be convicted, but you maintain your innocence and the government was not going to accept that. >> ainsley: when it comes to donald trump, this judge ruled the trial for trump on charges stemming from j 6 will not be held until after the presidential election. did you expect this? why do you think the judge decided this? >> the judge in d.c. was looking at the calendar knowing there was not enough time to have a trial and president trump has reasons to not b

first, he knows he's going to be pardoned. somebody who was interested in a plea negotiation would be trying to negotiate which counts to plead guilty to in order to minimize the potential damage. he's offering to plead to the whole indictment because he knows at the end of the rainbow, he gets a pardon. >> charlie. >> whether it is a commutation or a plea, joe biden is going to pardon his son, no doubt about it. joe biden got his son into this. the whole business was built around, as you pointed out, how did he make so much money. the reason he made so much money is because his dad was president and then vice president periods dad got him into this business and i think you will probably him out of it. whiles what he plead guilty? he pleaded guilty because he is guilty. the idea that hunter biden is walking around and acting like his family is the victim -- if his family are the victim here, it's because he committed these crimes. end of story. >> kennedy, this looks really bad for someone to get special treatment in this. we

the president could pardon his son on both.has nothing to lose like we discussed in your hour just 45 minutes ago. and so i think the most -- interesting thing that will happen now is what is the sentence, what is the punishment? and that will be interesting to see if how much prison time and fines. again, president biden could both pardon him and commute his sentence. >> harris: i was quoting you when we were talking about that moments ago, our correspondent jonathan hunt and i and he was right to point out we don't know. we agreed since there is nothing to lose, the campaign is over for biden in terms of him returning to the white house. and jonathan pointed this out, too. i thought it was kind of interesting. hunter biden may have factored all this in and said it doesn't matter what the sentence in if his father is going to help him. all of it needs the facts behind it in terms of what this case will look like and what biden would actually do for his son. >> that has been, i think, hunter's mindset from the very beginning. t

leadership of prosecutor general, the mandatory conditions for pardon, petition for pardon, admission of guilt, sincere repentance and a promise to lead a law-abiding life have been met. the ministry of internal affairs will ensure control over the behavior of those released. a difficult day for all belarusian sports today, they said goodbye to the legendary wrestler alexander medved. the three-time olympic champion passed away last monday at the age of eighty-seven. the funeral ceremony took place in the capital's sports palace, where a tournament for the prizes of the famous athlete. politicians, representatives of various sports, functionaries, close friends, and ordinary fans came to pay tribute to the undefeated athlete. deputy head of the presidential administration vladimir pertsov arrived with a wine from the head of state. let us recall that alexander medved is the most titled freestyle wrestler in history, he won his first olympic gold medal in tokyo in 1964, and then successively won the summer games in mexico city and munich. during his long career, alexander vasilyevich b

judge jeanine and kerri said, he's going to get a pardon. what form of that pardon depends on whether he accepts all the charges or the alford deal. the alford deal is dead. the bottom line is it's the same result as 13 months ago. he gets away with walking. for tax evasion, possibly other actions, and the gun charge, he gets a clean slate with a joe biden pardon. >> sandra: thank you very much for that, leo. kerri, stay with us. judge, stay with us. we are going to add jonathan turley to this discussion as we await more breaking news out of the courtroom there in los angeles. we'll be right back. now i have skyrizi. ♪ i've got places to go and i'm feeling free ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me ♪ ♪ control is everything to me ♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi helped visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. and with skyrizi, many were in remission at 12 weeks, at 1 year, and even at 2 years. serious

he was pardoning within presidential pardoned have vexed both parties, but stst it's unprecedented toe charged and convicted of those crimes. >> trump claimed there was a commission that vetted all his picks. there was no process. and the willy nilliness of the white house was exploited by those trying to get their applications before the president. they were able the to cut to the front of the line in the way that other people weren't. under the obama administration, they issued a lot of pardons and commutations, particularly on drug cases. that was undertaken through a vast process where they went back to the prosecutor who is brought the cases and said, hey, we're thinking about giving a pardon here. you were the prosecutor on the case. that's the normal way that a clemency application is dealt with. that's not what happened here. and these weren't secrets, the things that i'm telling you about. all of this stuff was known at the time. >> tim, this is where our broken politics continue to service donald trump. because in republican politics, in the '70s and '80s, lights out. if thi

he did 143 pardons, 94 commutations, a total of 237.ding 1,717 commutations. why this particular one, did you discern that? >> yeah, and i think the pardon authority is very important. it's designed to identify and correct injustices in the system. that's how prior presidents have used this authority. what president trump did, however, was issue a whole bunch of pardons, literally on his last day in office. the morning before he left the white house. that's when jamie davidson and others were pardoned. and what was particularly unusual about this is it did not go through the standard process where the office of the pardon attorney goes through and looks at the case closely and says is this a case where there was an injustice? is this someone who is a good candidate for a commutation or a pardon? and they took a look at jamie davidson's case a couple times and rejected it, but in 2021, jamie davidson had an attorney who also happened to be an attorney for donald trump jr., other members of the trump organization, and this time, he was su

to the president, last week the prosecutor general announced another meeting of the commission on pardon over the past month in belarus 60 people have been released in this way, they have complied with the mandatory conditions, a petition for pardon, admission of guilt, sincere repentance and a promise to lead a law-abiding life. it is worth noting that such an act of humanism on the part of the state is not profitable for the fugitives, because they earn a grant from prisoners. feed as people come out, realizing that they have become part of a big game for money. providing the farmer's enterprises and even sports clubs with the best horse breeds is a task for horse breeding. in the industry belarus almost two dozen breeding farms, the list of breeds is diverse and can completely cover the demands of the domestic market. today it is represented by almost twenty thousand livestock. this year shetlensky. you can enjoy for hours these picturesque spaces, it is not surprising that they were chosen by the selection and hybrid center vikhra, specializing in the cultivation of russian heavy dra

, what is he doing, why is the belarusian government pardoning, it means that even if it pardons everyone, no sanctions can be lifted, that is, well , everything is obvious, that is, this is the reaction of sick, unhealthy people, here is the reaction of relatives, even this first batch of pardoned people, well , three batches already, three batches in july 20 people, in august 30 people, in september another 30, here are the relatives, in conversations with them they thank the president, promise to take control of those who came out, that is, to protect their children, their husbands from this corrupting influence telegrams, information resources and so on, and they call literally every day, i was just on my way to a program, the mother of the pardoned... mikhail nemtsov called. she thanks the president, thanks the belarusian government for such a chance, to hope that such direct action will continue. well, that's it. belarusians have once again seen for themselves who these migrant extremist circles are? who is counting on them when they throw in again and again that they put pressure o

the mandatory conditions for pardon, a petition for pardon, admission of guilt, sincere repentance andomise to lead a law-abiding life were met. control over behavior. belarus and china is developing at an accelerated pace, this was stated by the chairperson of the council of the republic natalia kachanova during a meeting with the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of china to belarus. the meeting took place on the occasion of the completion of the ambassador's diplomatic missions. over the years of work in belarus , the diplomat was able to deeply immerse himself in belarusian-chinese projects, thanks in part to his participation last year , bilateral trade turnover reached a maximum of almost 8.5 billion dollars. interregional cooperation is also reaching a new level, together with the prc, belarus is implementing many high-profile projects, from car manufacturing to biotechnology. almost all regions have more than three partners among the provinces people's republic of china. we have signed about 100 bilateral documents on interregional cooperation, 32 documents between r

in general is an act of a strong state, that is, only a strong one can pardon and make this decision thing for me, what is important, is that we live in a state governed by the rule of law, that is, well, the criterion for pardoning was not determined by some virtual criteria, give us money, we will fight there, we will help, they, some in interviews and say openly, and what should we trade, if suddenly the president pardons us, what should we do, what should we tell, how should we justify our activities, that is, for them these are not individuals, not people who are worried, exclusively goods. andrey, and how do you look at this, well, i will say that the architecture of some future position of ours is being built, this is what it will be not now, not in a year, but in 5 years, it will be irreconcilable and radical, like these... formation, or it will not be radical and reconcilable, yes, constructive, if we ourselves do not make it so, then it will be the worst case scenario, therefore the state gives some signals to the west, to our internal protest group, that look, without brea

the mandatory conditions, pardons, petitions, pardons, admission of guilt, sincere repentance and a promiseng life were met. all available materials were studied, including criminal cases, and materials related to their behavior, places of imprisonment of these persons. the members of the commission took into account other circumstances: age, sincere repentance, assurances of those persons that they will strictly observe the laws of our country in the future, their health condition and other circumstances, while we also took into account the fact that all these persons ... did not commit a violent crime against representatives of the authorities, this is very important, they were convicted mainly for insult and slander in the internet space. members of the commission discussed each candidate in detail, and the decision was put to an open vote, according to the prosecutor general, in some cases everything was decided by a majority of one or two votes. the head of state, agreeing with the opinion of the commission members, adopted an act of pardon, guided by the principles of humanism, in fac

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that's when we've seen the greatest abuse of the pardon power occur.waited until the very last day to pardon his brother which was just a manifestly improper act in the use of his authority, but it was a legal act. this is not, there's not a restriction on the pardon authority in this sense. so i think that the hunter biden team is probably hoping that this is still a real a possibility. also a, if the judge hands down a particularly harsh sentence, it's going to increase the pressure on joe biden to reverse his promise. remember, this is the one who said that the lord almighty would have to tell him to leave the race, and then he left the race. will: right. so how much stock do we put in that he won't, him saying he won't pardon hunter biden. by the way, on the sentencing to your point as an interesting note, sentencing date is currently set as december 16th for hunter biden leaving that one-month window, three-week window for a pardon right there from joe biden. we'll wait and see. jonathan turley, thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> th

all persons presented for pardon were studied by the commission. all available materials were studied, including criminal cases and materials related to their behavior in places of deprivation of liberty of these persons. members of the commission took into account other circumstances: age, sincere repentance, meetings of our commission, where the next applications will be considered, are quite many, and we will also, by carefully studying each candidate, form our opinion on whether it is possible to ask the head of state to pardon this or that person. it is worth noting that such an act of humanism on the part of the state is in no way beneficial to the fugitive cooks and suckers, because they earn currency on prisoners, grants melt away as people get out, realizing that they have become part of a big game. for money, while some buy real estate in europe and go to resorts, others serve their sentences precisely because they decided to break the law at the behest of the former. however, as the prosecutor general emphasized, persons who committed cr

, so he doesn't have to pardon his son?ou accept that? >> jessica: that it's feasible? >> jesse: that is a nice way to finagle out of having to pardon your son. >> jessica: sure appeared i don't know. i was trained to process this when i saw it come across the inter-webs earlier today, as a parent, how difficult that would be, if you had the power to keep your kid out of jail, and you weren't running again, right, that was part of the campaign, because trump was out there saying just going to let him go and joe biden was saying absolutely not. so i could see a world in which he does lean on kamala for something like that or kamala just says this is something that is important to me. this is part of the administration. the bidens in the harriss, or harris-emhoffs, are close appeared commuting the sentence could be a way to do it without doing it. >> jesse: as well -- >> jessica: not as severe as a pardon so i could see it. that is a tough spot for a dad to be in. >> jesse: so imagine of joe biden was still the candidate. thi

and what about a pardon from his father? the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening. norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. and we are going to begin tonight with that breaking news, after the president's only surviving son today pleaded guilty to nine charges of tax evasion and falsifying tax returns. and tonight, we are hearing from hunter biden about why the sudden change in his legal strategy, as this move will avoid a lengthy and embarrassing trial for the biden family. what we do know is this, that this development was not part of a plea deal, and it does set up the possibility that the president's son could spend decades behind bars and raises new questions about the chance of a pardon from president biden. cbs's scott macfarlane reports the surprising move came as jury selection was getting underway. >> reporter: hunter biden, who was convicted by a jury in delaware in june of unlawfully possessing a gun, is trying to avoid a second criminal trial this year. he is charged in california with allegedly scheming to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in

it'll likely be during the window that his father a time where we tend to see a lot of pardons.to be pretty interesting to see biden come forward with a lot of pardons but maybe he decided he wanted to teach him a lesson. you will spend some time in jail. let's put up the cnn polls that show the battleground states as we watch this across the country and spend it quite a bit of time in pennsylvania. interesting articles today sort of pointing to the fact patrick nate silver and said they haven't been able to define the second year there was a surge of enthusiasm but it seems to be flattening out of it. no postconvention bump for kamala harris. and harris showing week in pennsylvania some saying she won't when there despite the numbers show her as very close. is she having trouble finding a second gear? >> i don't think so i was in pittsburgh yesterday and tim walz visited and then people are enthused and you can see you on ground. they just opened to campaign offices. i'm a big fan. iron on the payroll anymore but the bottom line is the fact they are competing therein and they h

. >> and this wasn't a pardon. it was a commutation. right? andrew.nd so people might be scratching their temples as to why this particular person who would be implicated in a crime that occurred against an undercover officer. why would that be somebody that trump would have given that commutation to if they're curious about that, they should be. this case is a perfect example of why former president trump, who was known to have essentially ignored clemency process. there's an office of the pardon attorney within the department of justice. they received requests for clemency. they do investigations on those people to determine if they are worthy of a pardon or commutation from the president united states president trump ignored that office and often just spoke to friends and advisers and celebrities to get recommendations of people who they thought they wanted pardoned. this is a perfect example of why you should not do that. you end up pardoning the wrong person and taking on great risk as a result? >> no, i should note that a spokesperson for trump

>> i think he will get pardoned. his dad will pardon him going out.ink there is any question about that. i don't think hunter biden is this brave selfless person is he trying to portray by pleading guilty to save his family. if that's what he wanted to do he could have done it years ago. he could have done it when the charges were lodged against him. he could have negotiated a plea with the government. he could have pled guilty during that ridiculously soft plea agreement that they offered him last year. and he backed out of. so, i think that he'll never see a day in jail. and i think that the timing of this was such that it protects his father in pardoning him after the election rather than before. >> ainsley: like brian said, won't allow them to open up the books to see where the money came from and where it went. thank you so much, francey for coming on. >> thanks, ainsley. >> ainsley: you are welcome. lakewood church pastor joel osteen coming up with his daughter. ballots could come out as soon as today despite set backs. lawrence is in the state

people have been released in belarus in this way; they met the mandatory conditions, a petition for pardon, knowledge of guilt, sincere repentance and a promise to lead a law-abiding life. it is worth noting that such an act of humanism on the part of the state is in no way beneficial to the fugitives, because they make money on prisoners, grants melt away as people are released, realizing that they have become part of a big game for money. increase the efficiency of personnel provision of the organs of internal affairs and improve the legal and social protection of employees. the head of state signed a decree today that amends the legislation on service in the internal affairs agencies. in particular , the requirements for candidates for service are tightened, persons with citizenship of another country will not be accepted, and the maximum age for admission to service is also increased. the document provides for increased social protection for employees, expanded access to medical care, including for family members of the law enforcement agency. in fact, what our generation, about what o

among those pardoned are six women, a number of those pardoned have chronic diseases, are disabled, pensioners. all of them repented asked to give them the opportunity to return to freedom, to lead a law-abiding life, the petition of the convicted. additionally studied the commission, which is headed by the prosecutor general. a good sports tradition, which for the third year in a row unites thousands of workers in the education system. the republican bike ride along the roads of memory took place in the capital. this time it is dedicated to the day of national unity, more than 400 trade union activists education science, students and teachers traveled 6 km, started from the stele minsk - hero city, before the beginning. according to tradition laid flowers. the project acquired special significance in the year of the eightieth anniversary of the country's liberation from the nazi invaders. national unity day has a very great historical value for us, because in 1939 western belarus was reunited in the east, that is, the bssr, and this is like... or something like the reunification of the belaru

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the parliament called zurabishvili's decision to pardon a participant in the riots destructive.uty irakli kerkhalia accused the georgian president of destabilizing activities. all because zurabishvili had previously pardoned a thirty-four-year-old man who had smashed a surveillance camera near parliament during a protest. he was sentenced to four years in prison for property damage and drug production. however, this is not the first case of presidential pardon of protesters in... another activist who threw a molotov cocktail at police officers was released from prison. belarus has joined the world car-free day, an initiative designed to draw attention to the problems of air pollution and climate change, drivers are invited to give up their personal cars today and use public transport, a bicycle or a scooter. traditionally, travel is free for drivers on this day in minsk upon presentation of a driver's license certificates. and vehicle registration documents. in the air, specialists will measure the concentration of pollutants. according to the results of recent years, the amount

the president has made it clear that he says no pardon, no commutation. but you have five months to rethink it. what is your view of that? >> listen, he is not running again and going to be leaving office january of 2025. i think most americans would say if their kid was facing potentially years in jail behind bars they would understand if president biden changes his mind on the way out the door. i have think that's very feasible. you heard hunter in his statement yesterday saying i don't want to drag my family through this again. the judge issued an order last week in the case saying when it comes to all of this stuff about prostitutes and sex clubs and strip clubs, if he allegedly took those things as business expenses it is relevant the jury hears that. hunter knew all that stuff would come in and potentially other payments more broadly to james biden or other biden family members. he wanted to keep that out of the public eye. >> dana: the "wall street journal" editorial board said president biden said he won't pardon his son. hunter took one for the b

mandatory conditions, pardon, petition, pardon, admission of guilt, sincere repentance and promise to lead a law-abiding life were met. all available materials were studied, including criminal cases, and materials related to them. mainly for insult and slander in internet space. the members of the commission discussed each candidate in detail, and the decision was put to an open vote. according to the prosecutor general. in some cases, everything was decided by a majority of one or two votes. the head of state, agreeing with the opinion of the commission members, adopted an act of pardon, guided by the principles of humanism. in fact, this is an act of good will. outside the system, these persons, after they are released from places of imprisonment, will be under the careful control of the internal affairs agencies. by the way, next week there will be another meeting of our commission, where the next applications will be considered quite a lot, and we will also, by carefully studying each candidate , form our opinion on whether it is possible to ask the head of state to pardon this or

and he was especially worried about the giving the pardon power to the president. the pardon power was a privilege that had also belonged to kings and to royal governors governors. and although there's a little bit of a limit that you can't pardon case of impeachment that's written into the constitution, the. george mason was still concerned. can you turn the next slide. so this is actually just a snippet. some of the ratifying convention debates here in virginia and which and you can see at the top answer to mr. mason's objections to the new constitution recommended by the late convened organ in philadelphia and so mason's objection, the president of the united states h unrestrained power of granting pardons, treason, which may be sometimes to screen from punishment, those whom he had secrly instigated to commit the crime and ther prevent discovery of his own guilt. so this was explicit concern of mason. this is crucial to why he did not argued against ratifying the constituti ivirginia and the person responding to him is righbew says answer. and hes the probabili

he said he would look at the cases and he would pardon he would pardon some. i don't think that the people who beat police police officers are gonna get pardon, perhaps people who were let in on the other side of the capitol by the supreme court, who the doors were open. they walked in and now facing stiff jail time, maybe they get pardoned, but he said he looked at the cases and consider pardoning. so that statement is not correct. and aaron so to your point, what specific what statements you talking about the perseids you could take january 6 example all gave that and that's a fair one okay. >> and so i don't believe that donald trump's words. i believe that people responsible for their own actions. i believe that if you're a 50-year-old individual, a 30 year on dividual, that your response reaction is not some person tells you to go peacefully march to the capitol and protest. and then all of a sudden you break a window that the person who told you is responsible, you're responsible, i believe in personal responsibility. i think that's a tenant of american